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The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was to be a deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and other high level radioactive waste, until the project was defunded by Nevada Senator and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2010.
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* Voted NO on barring website promoting Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump.
There have also been campaigns relating to the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant, the Idaho National Laboratory, proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the Hanford Site, the Nevada Test Site, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and transportation of nuclear waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The capacity of the surrounding sediment to contain the nuclear waste products has been cited by the U. S. federal government as supporting evidence for the feasibility to store spent nuclear fuel at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
** The U. S. Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States ' nuclear repository.
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a U. S. Department of Energy terminal storage facility for spent nuclear reactor and other radioactive waste, is in tuff and ignimbrite in the Basin and Range Province in Nevada.
* The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository was scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.
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The center of population of Nevada is located in Nye County, very near Yucca Mountain.
The Nevada Test Site and proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository are located in the southwestern part of the county and are the focus of a great deal of political and public controversy in the state.
The repository was located instead in Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
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The proposed repository was within Yucca Mountain, a ridge line in the south-central part of Nevada near its border with California.
However, under the Obama Administration funding for development of Yucca Mountain waste site was terminated effective via amendment to the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, passed by Congress on April 14, 2011.
The Department of Energy began studying Yucca Mountain in 1978 to determine whether it would be suitable for the nation's first long-term geologic repository for over ( 150 million pounds ) of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste currently stored at 121 sites around the nation.
The three sites were Hanford, Washington ; Deaf Smith County, Texas ; and Yucca Mountain.
In 1987, Congress amended the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and directed DOE to study only Yucca Mountain, which is already located within a former nuclear test site.
The Act provided that if during Site Characterization the Yucca Mountain location is found unsuitable, studies will be stopped immediately.
The Department of Energy was to begin accepting spent fuel at the Yucca Mountain Repository by January 31, 1998 but did not do so because of a series of delays due to legal challenges, concerns over how to transport nuclear waste to the facility, and political pressures resulting in underfunding of the construction.
On September 8, 2006 Ward ( Edward ) Sproat, a nuclear industry executive formerly of PECO energy in Pennsylvania, was nominated by President Bush to lead the Yucca Mountain Project.
Reid has said that he would continue to work to block completion of the project, and is quoted as having said: " Yucca Mountain is dead.
In the 2008 Omnibus Spending Bill, the Yucca Mountain Project's budget was reduced to $ 390 million.
During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to abandon the Yucca Mountain project.
A tour group entering the North Portal of Yucca Mountain
The purpose of the Yucca Mountain project is to comply with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and develop a national site for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste storage.
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There was significant public and political opposition to the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository project in Nevada.
The discovery required several structures to be moved several hundred feet further to the east, and drew criticism from Robert R. Loux, then head of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, who argues that Yucca administrators should have known about the fault line's location years prior, and called the movement of the structures “ just-in-time engineering .”
On April 13, 2010, The state of Washington filed suit to prevent the closing of Yucca Mountain, since this would slow efforts to clean up Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
* Macfarlane, Allison M. and Ewing, Rodney C., editors, Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste MIT Press, 2006.
* Annotated bibliography for the Yucca Mountain repository from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
* Nuclear Files. org – Yucca Mountain ( documents )
* " Nuclear Waste " – Sierra Club fact sheet in opposition to Yucca Mountain project
* Yucca Mountain Could Face Greater Volcanic Threat ( State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, Office of the Governor )
Since there is no projected date for operations start for the national long-term nuclear waste storage facility at the nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain Repository, Entergy Nuclear obtained approval for dry-cask storage to avoid exceeding the pool's licensed capacity ; this allows for continued operations to store additional spent fuel, beyond the original operating license term, ending in 2012.
Although the ancient history of Walker Lake has been extensively studied by researchers seeking to establish a climatic timeline for the region as part of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository study, this research has raised many puzzling questions.
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* Yucca Mountain Project ( Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, United States Department of Energy ) ( archive link )
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Yucca Mountain Repository, a U. S. Department of Energy terminal storage facility for spent nuclear reactor and other radioactive waste, is in a deposit of ignimbrite and tuff.
Amargosa Valley is near the controversial Yucca Mountain Repository, a U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) facility on federal land, designed for the storage of high-level nuclear waste.
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In July 2006, a fire started by dry lightning in Yucca Valley was almost 100 percent contained, however due to extremely low humidity, high temperatures, and 40 mile per hour gusts, the fire grew.
Norman J. Essig was a key player in the late 1950s in working toward establishing Yucca Valley as a place for entertainment celebrities to come and live in privacy.
He was personal friends with the late Jimmy Van Heusen and gave him prime real estate in Yucca Valley to build his house which can still be seen atop the highest hill in the center of the town.
The racial makeup of Yucca Valley was 17, 280 ( 83. 5 %) White, 666 ( 3. 2 %) African American, 232 ( 1. 1 %) Native American, 469 ( 2. 3 %) Asian, 44 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 1, 185 ( 5. 7 %) from other races, and 824 ( 4. 0 %) from two or more races.
The plant was in operation from 1960 to 1992, and the plant is now completely decommissioned, with the nuclear waste set to be transported to Yucca Mountain's containment facilities upon their completion in 2020.
Symbolic of this perseverance in the face of adversity, was the construction of the Yucca Theatre in 1931 by local businessman and politician, David M. Manning and his brother Jim Manning, just when the nationwide depression was at its nadir.
By 2008, Yucca Mountain was one of the most studied pieces of geology in the world with the United States having invested US $ 9 billion on the project.
In 2007, the DOE announced it was seeking to double the size of the Yucca Mountain repository to a capacity of, or 300 million pounds.
The U. S. Department of Energy was to begin accepting spent fuel at the Yucca Mountain repository by January 31, 1998.
On March 5, 2009, Energy Secretary Steven Chu reiterated in a Senate hearing that the Yucca Mountain site was no longer considered an option for storing reactor waste.
The formation that makes up Yucca Mountain was created by several large eruptions from a caldera volcano and is composed of alternating layers of ignimbrite ( welded tuff ), non-welded tuff, and semi-welded tuff.
The area around Yucca Mountain received much more rain in the geologic past and the water table was consequently much higher than it is today, though well below the level of the repository.
Yucca was supposed to be everything to everybody, and I think, knowing what we know today, there's going to have to be several regional areas.
It was first formally described in the botanical literature as Yucca brevifolia by George Engelmann in 1871 as part of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel.
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